FEATURED ARTICLES ABOUT MALCOLM FORBES - PAGE 3

How much hot air was there at the Egyptian Ball of the Field Museum of Natural History the other night? Enough to fill a sphinx, as a matter of fact. This is no social comment on either the guest list or the goings-on at one of Chicago's most elegant excuses to dine under the dinosaurs. No, it's simply a true observation (how could you have missed it?) that bobbing in the mist above the museum parking lot was none other than publishing magnate Malcolm Forbes` seven-story-high inflatable Egyptian sphinx.

"I wouldn`t give a nickel to really go back to the 19th Century," said Timothy Forbes, president of American Heritage magazine. "But we`re spending a fortune to get a little bit of it." The "little bit of it" is the Greek Revival house in Greenwich Village into which he and his wife, Anne Harrison, have moved after a yearlong restoration. "We fell in love with the idea of bringing a house as close as possible back to its original period," Forbes said. "And we searched the downtown area for nine months."

Paul Newman, in Washington, D.C., last week for the Senate vote on the SDI, sat in the special-guests section of the balcony, watching the proceedings. Paul felt comfortable enough to prop his feet up on the back of the seat in front of him, compelling the doorkeeper to ask him, forcefully, to remove them. Paul looked up at him with those blue, blue eyes. The doorkeeper said: "You have to do it." Newman politely did it. UP FOR SALE A recent listing in the Sunday real-estate section of the Los Angeles Times showed photos of "a country estate" in Malibu on 24 acres, with swimming pool, tennis courts, gymnasium, gazebo, outdoor stage, gardens of all types, movie projection room and four separate houses.

By Mary Daniels tracks the origins of this camel-covered bowl | March 28, 1999

"I bought this bowl in London 20 years ago. I can't remember what I paid for it, but I was a student then, so it couldn't have been very much. What is it?" B.B., Chicago The Sleuth took your flat, 10-inch-wide bowl to Richard T. Nelson, assistant vice president of furniture and decorations at Sotheby's Chicago. Our suspicions were that this is Victorian kitsch and Nelson was involved, a few years ago, in appraising and selling the contents of the Moroccan palace of Malcolm Forbes, who bought a lot of high Victorian kitsch.

In his long show-business career, Orson Bean scored one of his early triumphs with the Broadway show "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" In it he costarred with Walter Matthau and Jayne Mansfield, whom he describes as a "puree of movie magazine" in his autobiography, "Too Much Is Not Enough" (Lyle Stuart). It appears there was a bit of tension between Bean's costars, and Matthau complained of being upstaged. "She's just an amateur," Bean told him. "She only does it by accident." "Oh yeah?"

A new museum in museum-saturated New York has opened to display millionaire Malcolm Forbes` collection of Faberge jewelled objects, miniature soldiers and boats, Victorian trophies, American historical documents and 19th-Century paintings. The Forbes Magazine Galleries on the ground floor of the Forbes Building downtown attracted some 3,000 people in the first two weeks it was open. "We want people to bring their children," said Forbes, 65, head of the publishing empire. "This is not heavy-duty education.

Another investigative agency leak in Washington, this one over Fawn Hall. Seems that Oliver North's trusted secretary was a "weekend" cocaine user for several years. Hall admitted her powdery proclivities to a Drug Enforcement Administration agent in 1987, amid an investigation of Georgetown nightclubs- shortly after she testified in the Iran-contra hearings. Now living in Los Angeles, Hall reportedly snitched on her drug dealers. Not surprisingly, "close friends" profess ignorance and amazement.

"If there is one clear lesson of Reaganomics, it is that the rich cannot be trusted with money." -Barbara Ehrenreich, "Fear of Falling" (Pantheon) Ehrenreich, in a just-published book, is trying to make a point about the failure of trickle-down Reagan administration economic policy to appreciably moisten the lower strata of American society. Shorn of the Reaganomics reference, the comment seems apt in connection with the egregiously lavish birthday party Malcolm Forbes gave himself in Morocco.

By Russell Baker, Copyright 1989 N.Y. Times News Service | August 25, 1989

The woman is near tears. A few days ago she read about the birthday party created on New York's Long Island by rich, rich Saul Steinberg's wife, Gayfryd. It was not just a balloon-and-rented-clown party with a softball game for the kids in the backyard. It was tents, catered food served on real dishes, men in tuxedos, women in frou-frous, and wine-not jugs of watered Gallo, either, but real $7-a-bottle wine. Stung by the stories of Steinberg's glorious fete, she now had to endure these reports of the Malcolm Forbes birthday party.

Was that Elwood rubbing elbows with Tom Cruise, Jane Fonda and Chevy Chase at the Academy Awards? That's what the 5th and 6th graders at Thome Elementary School in Rock Falls wanted to know. Elwood was the only Thome kid in the audience for the Oscars. But celebrating with the stars is nothing new for him. In the last few years, Elwood has met some of the most famous actors, business tycoons and politicians in the world. Elwood is a 4-foot-4-inch bundle of cloth with a wide smile that makes everyone laugh.